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Crafts

seaglass

(8,185 posts) Fri Oct 25, 2019, 12:05 PM Oct 2019

A thousand needle workers volunteer to finish dead woman's quilt

I saw the original tweets on Twitter yesterday. This woman buys projects at estate sales and finishes them, mostly embroidery but she found the beginnings of a quilt and this is what happened...

Link to tweet

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50169038

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A thousand needle workers volunteer to finish dead woman's quilt (Original Post) seaglass Oct 2019 OP

K&R and thanks. Gorgeous quilt, lovely story! nt tblue37 Oct 2019 #1

Cool story! Thanks for sharing. flibbitygiblets Oct 2019 #2

Humans are amazing ornotna Oct 2019 #3

What a lovely story. femmocrat Oct 2019 #4

what a Wonderful Story, So many people coming together to finish the quilt. dem in texas Oct 2019 #5

Tears in my eyes. Dem2theMax Oct 2019 #6

What a story! It was on display for two weeks at the National Quilt Museum yellowdogintexas Nov 2021 #7

tblue37

(68,449 posts)

1. K&R and thanks. Gorgeous quilt, lovely story! nt

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Fri Oct 25, 2019, 12:14 PM

Oct 2019

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)

2. Cool story! Thanks for sharing.

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Fri Oct 25, 2019, 12:14 PM

Oct 2019

ornotna

(11,552 posts)

3. Humans are amazing

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Fri Oct 25, 2019, 12:15 PM

Oct 2019

Thanks for the great story.

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

4. What a lovely story.

Reply to seaglass (Original post)

Sat Oct 26, 2019, 09:29 AM

Oct 2019

I have so many unfinished craft kits and one quilt. So kind of people to take an interest in this woman’s life work.

dem in texas

(2,681 posts)

5. what a Wonderful Story, So many people coming together to finish the quilt.

Reply to seaglass (Original post)

Sun Oct 27, 2019, 01:38 AM

Oct 2019

Once the embroidery work is done and the blocks are sewn together, there should be a giant quilting bee to quilt the top. Wish I could take part in the fun.

Dem2theMax

(11,005 posts)

6. Tears in my eyes.

Reply to seaglass (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2019, 04:31 PM

Oct 2019

What a lovely story. I need to read these kinds of things to remember that there is still good in the world. Thank you so much for posting it.

yellowdogintexas

(23,757 posts)

7. What a story! It was on display for two weeks at the National Quilt Museum

Reply to seaglass (Original post)

Sun Nov 14, 2021, 03:52 PM

Nov 2021

It's in Paducah, Kentucky.

link: https://quiltmuseum.org/the-quilters-spot/ritas-quilt-debut-event/

One of these days when I am in KY with my sisters, we are going to go there!

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